Ethan Allen and Eliza Clagett

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Husband Ethan Allen ¹

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           Born: 12 May 1836 - Monmouth Co, NJ 1
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         Father: Samuel Fleming Allen (1791-1882) 1
         Mother: Phoeby Gobell (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 20 Aug 1861 1

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Wife Eliza Clagett ¹

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         Father: Darius Clagett (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Providence Dorsey (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Ethan Allen

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He graduated from Brown University in 1860, and was class orator, entered the New York University of Law school, from which he was graduated in 1861, at which time he was made valedictorian. He immediately commenced the practice of law and the same year was appointed deputy U. S. District Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Soon after the breaking out of the Civil War, he tendered his resignation for the purpose of accepting an appointment on the staff of Gen. Banks. The District Attorney declined to accept his resignation and appealed to Secretary of War Stanton to prevent Mr. Allen from entering the army, as his services were of more importance to the government in the position he then held. Soon after he received authority from Gov. Morgan of New York to raise a regiment for the service, and for the time was commissioned Colonel. He raised 1,600 men, which afterward rendered important services in the southwest. He continued his connection with the District Attorney's office until 1869, when he resigned and commenced the practice of law on his own account. He was one of the organizers of the Society of the Revolution and was one of the early members of the Union League. He retired from his profession in 1880 and made an extensive tour abroad.

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General Notes: Wife - Eliza Clagett

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She was descended from the Brice family. John Brice was born Haversham, England, 1670; d. Annapolis, Md., Dec., 1713; m. Dec. 16, 1701 in Anne Arundel Co., Md., Sarah Howard, widow of Capt. John Worthington, daughter of Matthew and Sarah (Dorsey) Howard.

1 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 426.